Details

Sidespied is an elegant portfolio theme geared to showcasing creativity. Whether you’re a painter, sculptor, photographer, videomaker, or want to shine a spotlight on another type of original work, Sidespied puts your projects in the forefront.

Based on Espied,Sidespied places the menu toggle button and side panel along the left part of the screen, and shows off larger featured images on the portfolio page.

Portfolio Shortcodes

Portfolio Page Template

The portfolio page template displays your portfolio projects. You can choose to make it your front page, or keep it as a separate page inside your site.

When you first activate Sidespied, your posts will be displayed in a traditional blog format. If you’d like to use the portfolio page template as your site’s front page – like the demo – just follow these steps:

Create or edit a page, and assign it to the Portfolio Page Template from the Page Attributes module.

Select the page you just assigned the Portfolio Page Template to as “Front page” and set another page as the “Posts page” to display your blog posts.

By default, your page title and any content you may have added will be displayed. You can opt to hide them by going to Customize → Portfolio and checking « Hide title and content on Portfolio Page Template. »

Where is the portfolio archive page?

Along with the Portfolio Page Template, projects appear on portfolio archive pages.

If you’d like to add the portfolio archive page to your a Custom Menu, create a custom link using the portfolio archive URL.

You can customize the portfolio archive page by changing the title, adding some content, and uploading a featured image. To do so, go to Customize → Portfolio.

Social Links

Sidespied lets you to easily link up your social media profiles, like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Set up a social links menu

Create a new Custom Menu, and assign it to the Social Links Menu location.

Add links to each of your social services using the Links panel.

Icons for your social links will automatically appear if it’s available.

Available icons

Linking to any of the following sites will automatically display its icon in your menu.

CodePen

Digg

Dribbble

Dropbox

Facebook

Flickr

GitHub

Google+

Instagram

LinkedIn

Email (mailto: links)

Pinterest

Pocket

Polldaddy

Reddit

RSS Feed (urls with /feed/)

StumbleUpon

Tumblr

Twitter

Vimeo

WordPress

YouTube

It’s just as easy as that, simply add the URL for the service you’d like to include and this theme does the rest!

Widgets

Sidespied’s widget area can be toggled open and closed from the left-hand side panel. The site menu and social links menu are also tucked away in this spot.

As a Blog Theme

Sidespied also works well as a blog theme. It’s easy to add an elegant pull quote for wider screens. Just add the alignleft or alignright class to a blockquote and the quote will subtly offset into the left or right margin.